Oil Field Solutions

The shareholders of CMI commenced their involvement in this sector in 1996 with the acquisition of the Floating Storage Ailsa Craig from the North Sea and the mobilisation to, and chartering of, the unit in Qatar where she served at the dedicated storage unit on the Al Rayyan Field,. After slightly more than 2 years of incident-free operation the vessel was replaced by a larger vessel and the Ailsa Craig was chartered to Amni Corporation of Nigeria where she commenced operations on the Ima Field in November 1999.

17 years later World Carrier Corporation (a CMI sister company) still operates the dedicated FSO on the Ima Field although the old Ailsa Craig has now been replaced with a newer larger vessel Ailsa Craig 1 which is installed on a fixed mooring spread.

Over this period World Carrier have expanded their West African operations and now provide a full range of services for the Ima and adjacent fields as follows:

FSO Ailsa Craig 1, a spread moored floating storage and offloading vessel for Ima and associated field operations. We also provide Terminal Services and Mooring Masters for cargo lifting on shuttle tankers.

MT Irini, a shuttle tanker used for oil transfers to Ailsa Craig 1 from adjacent oilfields